Office architecture

Office design: the latest trends in workspace architecture

Corporate identity is expressed through workspace design. Draw inspiration from the latest design trends and evolving ideas across the realm of office design. Attract the most eager millennials and accommodate the most seasoned experts into your team. Work it.

Building blocks: new structures around the globe in 2019

Architecture is the basis for modern human existence – providing shelter, places to work, gateways for travel and entertainment arenas. Here we shed light on some of the less ordinary structures cropping up across the world that, from cultural destinations...

Inside the Dyson dynasty’s Mayfair office

A modest Georgian property, in a terrace of similar structures in London’s Mayfair, conceals much behind its elegant brick facade. For this is the private office of the Dyson family, Britain’s most successful modern industrial dynasty. Intended as the nerve...

Japanese and Italian design combine in Chicago office interior by Alvisi Kirimoto

In Chicago, on the 32nd floor of a skyscraper in the West Loop, Rome-based architectural firm Alvisi Kirimoto has designed a floor of office space for a private client’s headquarters. Combining Italian and Japanese design principles, Alvisi Kirimoto’s trademark approach...

Midcentury modernist Maxwell Starkman’s LA studio converted into an office by 1100 Architect

In Los Angeles, 1100 Architect has converted a midcentury design studio dating back to 1958 into a contemporary office to house creative design and media company, Brand New School. While the original building by Maxwell Starkman (1921-2003) has been updated and...

What’s next for Studio Gang?

Jeanne Gang, architect and founder of Studio Gang, is the queen of the smart façade. The Chicago-based practice, which hosts bee-hives on the office roof, has extensively researched the solar carving process in relation to the design and construction of towers. A...

Elmgreen & Dragset’s cavernous Berlin live-work space offers a clever twist on familiar structures

Scandinavian art duo Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have become masters of the architectural installation over the past 13 years, picking up critical acclaim and international gallery shows as they go. Their work is characterised by presenting a familiar space...

Building blocks: striking structures around the globe for 2018

Some architects just love making a statement. From monumental monoliths to soaring skyscrapers, here we highlight the bold buildings disrupting skylines and shaking up our perspective of the urban environment

MoreySmith designs a global HQ for Dunhill that embodies the brand through the details

MoreySmith has smoothly embedded a contemporary global headquarters for British luxury goods brand Dunhill into the layered fabric of the historic Mayfair neighbourhood – just a stone’s throne from Selfridges on North Audley street. Staged across two floors of a...

New Light Pottery’s HQ in Nara, Japan, merges old and new

New Light Pottery’s new home in Japan’s ancient capital of Nara is a carefully executed amalgam of old and new, much like the city itself. Since Hiroyuki Nagatomi started New Light Pottery in 2015, his handmade, mainly brass and glass lights have grown...

Fosbury & Sons Boitsfort in Brussels brings home comforts into the workplace

Sinking into a deep sofa, surrounded by candles and ceramic vases filled with flowers, is not something you might associate with a hard day at work, but that’s why co-working company Fosbury & Sons’ ideas are just so radical. Serge...

HOK unveils biophilic Silicon Valley campus Central + Wolfe